Thoughts about bear site stuff and our wreckers

Hi I am in a rly awful mood rn xwx

I shouldn't even be here rn, I deleted my main acct just cuz the drama here got too be way too much for me to not feel like shit half the time I visit but I still lurk for some reason (there is no other site like this place in spite of its incredible ability to generate fighting over pointless and/or esoteric stuff)

Maybe it's just me being more sensitive to it lately cuz I haven't been struggling with mental health as much in past year but I feel like it's getting worse

And every time I read these threads it's the most obvious alt accounts for ppl who have been banned like 100 times already and I've been so online I am like 67% sure I can tell who is who now lmao

DayOfDoom (not to target you specificallyyy but its been very blatant and ofc that was part of your bit for a while) and all the creepy and/or brainwormed cis white guys who got purged during the last site cultural revolution before everyone involved burned out or left are still fucking here (the rowing guy, for example, I actually like you but it is kinda wild how mad and like.... antisocial the gas stove thing made you :| I had to remove some of your posts right after that omg, idk)

Idk what's up with Melina but even me mentioning faer is gonna invoke some of those irony poisoned ppl in fae's social circle to start shit under this post with their 17 alt accts lol. Literally just read their names. Do you recognize them? Was their account made 13 days ago and has been solely posting in /c/fakenews or the news thread? Do they post anything other than irony poisoned bits or antisocial yearning for billions to die? It's so fucking obvious but we aren't banning them, idek

Oooh, and one of the more entertaining and obvious wreckers I like to watch is Voight :3 Guy who posts like 10 rant replies to you before you even see their first reply. Did you end up going to Vietnam? I hope you're logged the fuck off now lol, site stuff obviously rly bothering you :/ I'm too tired to remember details of weird politics stuff you posted

Ugh idk, here's some things I think we should do:

Ban /c/fakenews

Yeah it's mostly not funny and is run by and invites the same kind of irony poisoned ppl who keep cooking new drama. It was basically Melina's comm for a while cuz almost no one else wanted to be around fae's posting

News threads and general megathreads need more oversight or smth

The news megas are kinda likeee a whole different site, populated both by ppl who have genuinely interesting stuff to share even if it's often wrong and the rly brainwormed irony poisoned geopolitics enjoyers. I didn't spend a lot of time there just cuz idk... vibes were off kinda so others know a lot more about their drama incidents than me. But there are a lot of ppl who were banned or need to be banned who only participate in the news thread and go on the main site to stir up shit lol. Here's some words to create ✧˖°. discussion ✧˖°.: ZPoster the ultimate ban evader, uhhhh LargePenis getting bullied off the site for a bit with a lot of it from ZPoster, also its kinda wild anyone thought that xiaohongshu imposter drama post could've been anything but one of their haters from the news thread making fun of them

The general megathreads..... okay Im running out of horrible self-harming drama energy to keep writing buttttt they did often have ppl posting a lot of rly personal stuff especially about other ppl in a way that is rly problematic and continues to be (ban crushposting, just fuckin ban it)

Make the site account creation process require an invite or someone to vouch for you. Or start logging IP addresses, idk. Have the server pipe log output to a program that greps for them, sends a copy over a encrypted connection to a . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . securer . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . machine that the admins control directly, and sends the rest to /dev/null, something, anything. Not logging IP addresses doesn't rly mean anything tbh, it's running on a cloud server in fuckin :france-cool: feds can get those IP addresses easily if they want them, get them off the server so hypothetical hackers cant get at them all easily but yeh

Here's a hot take: power posters CAN be good.

It means literally nothing for your opsec that you delete your account periodically. We have a wrecker (I can't find the source for this rn) who has admitted that they have a server federated to us, which means they SEE and SAVE EVERYTHING. Who upvotes what, what actions moderators have taken, the polite requests to delete stuff local users deleted (for a while, post deletions didn't even federate lmao)

Also, Lemmy is scraped constantly now. Not only by ppl who need AI stuff or advertisers or whatever. Plug you account into the wayback machine here: https://web.archive.org/ I bet it's there lol

How can you build a community when everyone is changing names and avatars every few weeks? You can't, which is why we have a community of power posters for better or worse

Power posters create so much of this fuckin drama but also any one power poster is soooooo much less likely to be doing the kind of shit the obvious alt accounts are doing, cuz being here for any extended length of time and being recognized means you are trusted more to some extent

Okay im hitting post before every neuron is telling me not to post this

Oh one last thing, there is an incredibly trivial way for anyone to see who is performing moderation actions. Admins of other servers in the network can also see and that is probably unfixable